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Cyber-crime, Malware

Fake Google ads are trying to trick users into downloading nasty malware — here’s how you can fight back

January 29, 2024

Via: TechRadar

Consumers in China looking to access banned communications apps such as Telegram are being targeted by threat actors looking to deploy various malware. This is according to a new report from Malwarebytes’ Jérôme Segura, who found unnamed hackers have been […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

BlackCat plays with malvertising traps to lure corporate victims

November 16, 2023

Via: The Register

Affiliates of the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware-as-a-service operation are turning to malvertising campaigns to establish an initial foothold in their victims’ systems. Paid adverts for popular business software such as Slack and Cisco AnyConnect are being used to lure corporate victims into […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Mac Users Beware: Malvertising Campaign Spreads Atomic Stealer macOS Malware

September 8, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

A new malvertising campaign has been observed distributing an updated version of a macOS stealer malware called Atomic Stealer (or AMOS), indicating that it’s being actively maintained by its author. An off-the-shelf Golang malware available for $1,000 per month, Atomic […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

BlackCat Operators Distributing Ransomware Disguised as WinSCP via Malvertising

July 3, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

Threat actors associated with the BlackCat ransomware have been observed employing malvertising tricks to distribute rogue installers of the WinSCP file transfer application. “Malicious actors used malvertising to distribute a piece of malware via cloned webpages of legitimate organizations,” Trend […]


Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

FormBook Malware Spreads via Malvertising Using MalVirt Loader to Evade Detection

February 6, 2023

Via: The Hacker News

An ongoing malvertising campaign is being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are designed to deploy the FormBook information-stealing malware. “The loaders, dubbed MalVirt, use obfuscated virtualization for anti-analysis and evasion along with the Windows Process Explorer driver for […]


Cyber-crime, Malware

Microsoft Warns of Cybercrime Group Delivering Royal Ransomware, Other Malware

November 18, 2022

Via: Security Week

DEV-0569 has been relying on malicious ads (malvertising), blog comments, fake forum pages, and phishing links for the distribution of malware. Over the past few months, however, Microsoft noticed that the threat actor has started using contact forms to deliver […]


Cyber-crime, Malware, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

eGobbler infects more than 1 billion ads in worldwide campaign

October 4, 2019

Via: Hot for Security

The eGobbler malvertising threat actor has made a return, this time exploiting a WebKit vulnerability used primarily by iPhone’s Safari browser. Security researchers from Confiant estimate up to 1.16 billion impressions have been compromised since the start of the latest […]


Vulnerabilities

WordPress Plugin Flaws Exploited in Ongoing Malvertising Campaign

July 24, 2019

Via: Threat Post

A widespread and ongoing malicious advertising campaign is exploiting several recently-disclosed WordPress plugin vulnerabilities to redirect website visitors to booby-trapped landing pages. Researchers at Wordfence said that they recently discovered bad actors injecting code into websites with the vulnerable plugins […]


Malware, Threats & Malware, Virus & Malware

Malvertising Campaign Delivers Double Whammy of Ransomware and Info-Stealing

January 9, 2019

Via: Threat Post

The whole attack takes place in under a minute. A multi-payload and ongoing malvertising campaign is distributing a newly discovered info-stealer as well as the GandCrab ransomware. The info-stealer is named Vidar, after the Norse god Víðarr, who was the […]


Malware

How Fraudulent Advertising Could Be Costly to Your Company

January 3, 2017

Via: Panda Security

Your company may be losing money because of online advertising. Beyond the success of advertisements when it comes to converting marketing budgets into sales, a singular type of cyberattack threatens to directly affect your company’s accounts. Namely, there exist networks […]


Malware

TAG Unveils Anti-Malware Certification For Online Ad Industry

November 16, 2016

Via: Dark Reading

The Trustworthy Accountability Group (TAG) has launched the TAG “Certified Against Malware” Program as part of its broader effort to eliminate fraudulent traffic, combat Internet piracy, fight malware, and encourage transparency in the digital advertising supply chain. This initiative, which […]


Virus & Malware

Online Ad Industry Threatened by Security Issues

November 1, 2016

Via: DataBreach Today

The online advertising industry is at an inflection point, and not just from falling ad rates, ad blockers and potential regulation. It’s facing a big security problem, and one that – like many internet-scale problems – will demand close industry […]


Application security, Malware

Also Spotify in the list of services victim of a malvertising campaign

October 10, 2016

Via: Security Affairs

Spotify users have been targeted by a malvertising campaign, the malicious advertising served to the victims could automatically open a web browser and redirect victims websites hosting malware. Spotify is a popular online music service that allows its users to listen […]


Malware

Malvertising slowing down, but not out

July 5, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

We have not seen very many large scale malvertising attacks following the mysterious disappearance of the powerful Angler EK. The ones we do see tend to be related to low quality traffic and usually push the less sophisticated RIG or Magnitude […]


Malware

Malvertising Campaign Leads To DoubleClick Ad Fraud

June 7, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

Malvertising isn’t only used to infect users via drive-by downloads or to deceitfully push fake software updates. A campaign currently going on via the TrafficHolder adult ad platform leverages the promise of raunchy videos to lure people into ad fraud. […]


Malware

Malvertising On Blogspot: Scams, Adult Content and Exploit Kits

May 10, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

We don’t really hear about it that much, but malvertising can and does target free blogging platforms as well. Just this morning, our friends at Virus Bulletin Martijn Grooten and Adrian Luca wrote about some sites hosted on Google’s Blogspot service pushing tech […]


Malware

Magnitude EK Activity At Its Highest Via AdsTerra Malvertising

April 19, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

The Magnitude EK has been on the forefront of most of the malvertising-driven attacks we have seen in the past few weeks. In fact, the intense activity it is generating is overshadowing other exploit kits and distribution methods such as […]


Malware

Magnitude EK Malvertising Campaign Adds Fingerprinting Gate

April 4, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

When it comes to malvertising, the Angler exploit kit is almost always the weapon of choice used by cyber criminals to push out malware onto their victims. As we’ve seen in many high profile cases recently, these attacks are also […]


Malware

Malvertising campaign hits MSN.com, NY Times, BBC, AOL

March 17, 2016

Via: Help Net Security

In the last couple of days, visitors of a number of highly popular websites have been targeted with malicious adverts that attempted to install malware (mostly ransomware, but also various Trojans) on their systems. The websites in question were those […]


Malware

Magnitude EK Malvertising Déjà Vu

February 26, 2016

Via: Malwarebytes

During the past few days we have witnessed an increase in the number of malvertising incidents involving the Magnitude exploit kit. The last time we blogged about this was in mid November 2015 and we attributed the event to the fact that Magnitude […]